Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mission to Moscow. Thus driven, Socialist leaders sometimes find themselves operating in a kind of political no man's land between East and West. They often seem readier than conservative opponents to trade off elements of Western military strength in return for Soviet political concessions. It has not got them very far. Suslov was full of peace talk, but no more willing than Khrushchev to make any substantial compromises...
...latest wrinkle in the trade was all but inevitable. With everyone scrambling for pre-Columbian art, local Indians have learned to copy the originals handed to them by dealers, are selling fakes to gullible tourists as fast as they can make them. And some are so well done that even the art dealers get clipped on an occasional imitation Mayan...
...slight. As Darcy, Hollywood's Farley Granger is the stuff telephone poles are made of. TV's Polly Bergen makes a winning Elizabeth, but the ex-Pepsi Cola Girl seems to be selling her part rather than playing it. As Mrs. Bennet, the huntress of five carriage-trade husbands, Hermione Gingold growls, minces and struts through her endless matrimonial campaigns. She would be fiercely funny if First Impressions were a bedroom farce, and not a genteel domestic satire. As it is, Comedienne Gingold breaks up the house, and shatters the tenuous Jane Austen mood. The musical...
...fiercely competitive trade with big risks, small profit margins and notoriously old-fashioned business methods, the launching of new firms is rare. Said one intrigued bystander about the Knopf-Haydn-Bessie venture: "[It is as if] the presidents of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford left their jobs to start an automobile company." Said one publishing bigwig, who lunched with Random House Boss Bennett Cerf a week ago: "When the rumor came up, Bennett's face was a real study...
...backing, but one known angel is Investor Richard Ernst, a former Knopf employee (in the sales department) who is married to Department Store Heiress Susan Bloomingdale. As for father Knopf, 66, he had no comment on his son's exodus. A publisher who has often complained that the trade is turning out far too many books, Knopf Sr. only said: "There have always been new firms, and I guess this will be a good one," As for Pat, 41, he seemed to be on his own at last...